Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxBack in November 2012, we announced our MCA Beta client. We have been very busy working to improve the testing options that are available from the MCA client. Here’s what we’ve built for the 1.0 release: &#160; Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer Tool 1.0aka the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog7.x ProductionRE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxThu, 14 Mar 2013 15:34:47 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>Thanks, Dan, for the great feedback. If a target Availability Service server FQDN is specified in the free/busy test, it is used only in the query to get the target user’s availability. All other functions of the test rely upon Autodiscover.</p>
<p>The free/busy test currently does not support using an email address that is different than the UPN, but we will look to add this feature in an upcoming release.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxThu, 14 Mar 2013 02:22:50 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>@MCATeam,</p>
<p>So, in effect what the MCA team is saying is, the product wasn&#39;t finished properly and was rushed out the door.</p>
<p>Okay, glad to know. I think I&#39;ll skip this mess and just wait for version 1.1 thank you very much.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxWed, 13 Mar 2013 22:19:37 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>The Free/Busy lookup doesn&#39;t work internally.</p>
<p>The tool prompts for the UPN of a user, but treats the UPN as an email address for the purposes of an Autodiscover lookup, and our UPN suffixes are different from our email addresses.</p>
<p>The manual Specify Target Availaiblity Service Server FQDN appears to be ignored because the results show the tool is still looking for the autodiscover service based upon the UPN domain suffix.</p>
<p>Since walking a user through using a tool like this remotely will be complicated enough, could you add the source mailbox email address and use that for the Autodiscover lookup instead of having the user manually specify a FQDN of a server (which they won&#39;t understand on top of it currently not working)?</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxWed, 13 Mar 2013 22:10:03 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>The MCA has problems downloading, throws activation errors, and now we find out that the entire Lync section is unusable due to a known pre-req not shipping? Slap me silly, but this appears to be unfinished and was rushed out the door too soon. You launched it without half (Lync) the features working right.</p>
<p>I thought we were over this issue with the last round of embarassing RU updates and recalls. Is that what is going on now in the world of Exchange? Just release half-finished code to the world?</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxWed, 13 Mar 2013 19:55:02 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>For the Lync tests not working concerns. &nbsp;We have a pre-req for the Unified Communications Managed API 4.0 (UCMA) DLLs for the Lync test to work properly. &nbsp;We aren&#39;t able to ship them with the product at this time. &nbsp;To install the DLLs - go here - <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=34992">www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx</a>. &nbsp;We will work on improving the pre-req check/handling in a future release.</p>
<p>For the installation issues, we need to work directly with each of you to see the exception error details. &nbsp;Please send us email to mcafeedback@microsoft.com with as many details as you can share about what is breaking and we&#39;ll do our best to troubleshoot those issues and get things working.</p>
<p>As always, feel free to send direct feedback to mcafeedback@microsoft.com.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>The MCA Team</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxWed, 13 Mar 2013 00:57:34 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>@xC0000005,</p>
<p>That appears to have been the issue with the security. Once I manually saved the file and ran it, rather than going through IE, the security error seems to have gone away. Dang if it isn&#39;t always an issue with IE. </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Might want to update the install notes to always manually download. This is the only file/site I ever remember having to do this with, so there is definitely something wrong with IE, the download site, or something. Having to separately manage downloads and installs and figure out how to run a simple program = a bug somewhere.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxWed, 13 Mar 2013 00:51:12 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>Got it to install on my second w7 machine, but I cannot get it to run on my w8 machine. A few issues. First, the Lync test doesn&#39;t appear to work. You click &quot;Perform Test&quot; and nothing happens. This feature appears to be broken and/or does not like something about my configuration. Second, it doesn&#39;t appear to pick up my SCP records, and rather seems to fall-back on the standard DNS zone records. Is there any way to get the test to see the standard SCP forest zone configuration correctly? All in all, the tool doesn&#39;t appear to work at all correctly for me.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxWed, 13 Mar 2013 00:50:37 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>So, the security zone issue is the result of either:</p>
<p>1. &nbsp;Saving the clickonce deployment and running it or</p>
<p>2. Running ina &nbsp;browser without clickonce support (FF &amp; Chrome both support it, but require extensions). &nbsp;The boostrapper (.exe link) will work fine whether you have the extensions.</p>
<p>Mike &amp; Randy, are there exceptions logged in the event logs? &nbsp;If so, mail them to our feedback alias and I&#39;ll dig into them.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxTue, 12 Mar 2013 23:43:14 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>I have tried to install this twice now. I&#39;ve rebooted my machine and made absolutely sure the .NET 4.5 was installed. I am running Windows 8 Pro. I am running 8 GB memory (64-bit ws) and an intel i7 quad processor. From looking at the setup logs, it appears to be an issue with the following file not working:</p>
<p>microsoft.exchange.connectivity.analysis.ui.exe</p>
<p>I suspect there will be a version 1.1 of this tool released soon, but in the meantime how do I fix this problem and get this installed? Otherwise, I have to continue to use the not so great Outlook CTRL-SHIFT tool instead of this one.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxTue, 12 Mar 2013 22:21:14 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>I&#39;ve tried to install this on my Windows 8 Enterprise workstation and a co-workers Windows 7 machine (both 64 bit), but I keep getting the following error:</p>
<p>&lt;b&gt;Activation of C:\Users\rtuckett\Downloads\Microsoft.Exchange.Connectivity.Analysis.Tool.application resulted in exception.&lt;/b&gt;</p>
<p>Any idea on how to solve this?</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxTue, 12 Mar 2013 21:52:45 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p> This tool keeps throwing error &quot;Deployment and application do not have matching security zones.&quot; and will not install.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxTue, 12 Mar 2013 08:43:37 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>Steve, you are not alone man. The Lync test doesn&#39;t do anything at all. This is definitely version &quot;1.0&quot; stuff here.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxTue, 12 Mar 2013 06:16:42 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9DirtyGoat0<p>I don&#39;t see a 64-bit requirement, except for Vista. &nbsp;And XP? &nbsp;That&#39;s several versions back now, with extended support ending next year. &nbsp;Hardly surprising that it&#39;s not a supported OS.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxTue, 12 Mar 2013 05:10:23 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>The LYNC test is still not working. &nbsp;I successfully verify the characters box, but nothing happens when I press Perform Test. &nbsp;Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3557865&AppID=3106&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA) 2.1http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/11/announcing-microsoft-connectivity-analyzer-mca-1-0-and-microsoft-remote-connectivity-analyzer-rca-2-1.aspxTue, 12 Mar 2013 01:38:57 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:a91654a6-d0ca-4c30-9391-73c1eaec9dc9Anonymous0<p>There should also be a 32-bit version I wonder if every corporation has 64-bit client Win7. </p>
<p>And surprisingly there is no XP version available?</p>
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